Who's actually good at hiring for brokerages.
Ranked lists of the lending recruiters who place mortgage brokers, finance brokers, credit analysts, BDMs and broker support staff in Australia, plus the people running the brokerages and aggregators they place into.
Each one publishes how it's scored, so you can argue with the order.
Australia-wide
- Top mortgage broking recruiters in Australia The ten firms worth calling when you're hiring a broker, a credit analyst or broker support, ranked for principal-led brokerages. Read the list →
- Top lending recruiters in Australia Ten lending recruiters for roles across brokerages, non-bank lenders and banks' broker channels, ranked for hiring in the broker channel. Read the list →
By role
- Top finance broking recruiters in Australia Who recruits commercial, asset and equipment finance brokers and the credit people behind them, ranked for principals. Read the list →
- Top credit analyst recruiters in Australia Ten firms for credit analysts, parabrokers and credit managers, ranked for brokerages, with the lender-side credit desks scored for banks and non-banks. Read the list →
- Top loan processor recruiters in Australia Nine firms for loan processors, client service managers and settlements staff, ranked for brokerages, with temp cover and lender operations desks marked. Read the list →
- Top lending BDM recruiters in Australia Who places BDMs for lenders and aggregators who call on brokers, ranked on broker knowledge and the BDM work each firm can show. Read the list →
By city
- Top mortgage broking recruiters in Melbourne Most of Australia's broking recruiters are based in Melbourne. The ten worth calling, ranked for principals hiring brokers, credit analysts and support staff. Read the list →
- Top mortgage broking recruiters in Sydney The country's biggest broking market, full of banking recruiters and short on broking ones. The ten worth calling, ranked for Sydney principals. Read the list →
- Top mortgage broking recruiters in Brisbane Queensland brokerages advertise harder for staff than anyone else, and only one broking desk has a Brisbane office. The ten worth calling, ranked. Read the list →
- Top mortgage broking recruiters in Perth No broking specialist has a Perth office, so the honest list is short. The seven worth calling for a Perth brokerage, and why a national search usually wins. Read the list →
The people running broking
- Top 10 mortgage brokers in Australia The ten brokers writing at the very top of the market, built on MPA's Top 100 and The Adviser's Elite Broker ranking, plus the awards and the years behind them. Read the list →
- Top 10 independent brokerage leaders in Australia With the franchise networks taken out of the Top 25, these are the people who built independents that compete on volume. Read the list →
- Top 10 commercial and asset finance broking leaders The people running Australia's best commercial, development and asset finance brokerages, from a $2.5b property desk to a one-man Broker of the Year. Read the list →
- Top 10 aggregator and broker group leaders The people running the networks most Australian brokers write through, from the listed giant to the family-owned holdouts. Read the list →
- Seven broking founders to watch in Australia Brokerages founded since 2018 that are already ranking, winning or growing faster than firms twice their age. Read the list →
- Top 10 asset finance brokers in Australia The ten brokers who settled the most asset finance in FY26, from The Adviser's Elite Broker ranking, and what their numbers say about the job. Read the list →
Why I wrote them
A principal choosing a recruiter should know who else is worth ringing. A recruiter is a big call for a brokerage, and a bad one costs you a seat for six months.
These lists are my answer. Some firms on these lists are better than us at things we don't do, like running thirty support hires a year or placing BDMs into a major bank. Where that's true, the list says so.
The people lists exist for a different reason. Broking is a small industry run by a few hundred people who built something, and most of them never get written about outside the trade press. Most brokers stay put, with 79% telling MPA's 2025 survey they were extremely unlikely to even switch aggregators, so the businesses that keep attracting good people are usually run by someone worth knowing.
Joe Shephard, Founder, FinTalent
FinTalent publishes these lists and appears on nine of the recruiter lists. Every firm, FinTalent included, was scored in a blind review against the same published criteria, from the facts on each firm's own website, with no ranking in view. Each list states where FinTalent landed. Nobody paid to be on a list or can pay to move up one, and nobody from FinTalent appears on the people lists.
Hiring into a brokerage?
Tell me the seat and the business. You'll get a straight read on the market, and on whether you need a recruiter at all.